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PIUwhat I think when cleaning shoes after walk in barnyard.


----please, draw me a sheep----
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-PID - a suffix added to indicate that someone is more than just plain stu.

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YARE

PRONUNCIATION: (yahr or yayr)

MEANING: adjective: 1. Easily maneuverable; nimble. 2. Ready; prepared.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old English gearo/gearu (ready). Earliest documented use: 888.

USAGE: "I do desire to learn, sir; and, I hope, if you have occasion to use me for your own turn, you shall find me yare."
William Shakespeare; Measure For Measure; 1604.

"She was a 'bonnie lass' in the words of her chief engineer; she was faithful, she was yare -- an unlikely compliment for a vessel without sails."
D.C. Riechel; German Departures; iUniverse; 2009.


A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Never confuse motion with action. -Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)

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NARE : lumbering; unprepared; obstinate; unresponsive; in short, the opposite of YARE

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"Never confuse motion with action." - Benjamin Franklin

I like that.

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Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc

"Never confuse motion with action." - Benjamin Franklin

I like that.


I like it too, Fahulicodo, very much. Strange. I wonder why Franklin is just now saying it?

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Y'ARE - "Y'think therefore Y'are". A phrase often used by Descarte when addressing a group.

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Y'ARE.

Good thinnking, JJ!
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RUCK

PRONUNCIATION: (ruk)

MEANING: noun: 1. A large mass, especially of ordinary people or things. 2. A crease or wrinkle.
verb tr., intr.: To make a crease or to become creased.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old Norse hrukka (wrinkle, fold). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sker- (to turn or bend), which is also the source of ranch, rank, shrink, circle, circa, crisp, corolla, search, ring, curb, ridge, curve, corolla, and coronary. Earliest documented use: 1225.


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UNCK
what Piglet called his mother's brother
Reason for edit: two changes; disqualified

O'RUCK
1. what your Japanese friend wishes you rots of when she's feeling sardonic
2. an Irish brand of vacuem cleaner

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Quote:
"Never confuse motion with action." - Benjamin Franklin

Let's take it one step further:

Never confuse motion with action, or action with progress. **

("The trouble with Internet quotations is that you can't always depend on their accuracy." -- Abraham Lincoln)

**Edit: A brief Googlesearch says I could/should have attributed this to "Benjamin Hemingway"...

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F*CK - a written euphemism for the F-word.

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...and this from the young lady who chided me for using the euphemism "nether parts"... wink

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Ha!
Better half-said than left unsaid whereas the f-word might snigger forever in schoolboys raunchy little minds.
Don't push me. I'll say the p-word, the c-word, and words that have never been said if properly challenged.

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